I'm probably older than most people here.

My story takes place way back in the 1990s.

Most people hadn't even heard of the internet yet.

Besides the telephone handwritten letters

were still the most common way

for people to communicate.

If you've had something to say and time wasn't important,

you'd scroll your thoughts out on a piece of paper

and mail it off.

For hundreds of years, humans would commit

their most heartfelt feelings to paper

and send them around the world.

Receiving a letter from a loved one

while separated could be a welcomed remedy

for a homesick heart.

This was especially true during times of war.

A letter from a sweetheart or a parent

could lift a soldier's morale.

So important, many were read over and over.

Often being read out loud to fellow soldiers

and quiet times between engagements.

It had its pros and cons, but I look back on it fondly.

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